Blotter-holder.



1). H. FITZGERALD.

BLOTTEB HOLDER.

APPLICATION IILED DEQ. 18, 1908.

Patented Fb.27,1912'.

Attest:

by. 1 r

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL H. FITZGERALD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BLOTIER-HOLDER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL H. FITZGER- ALD, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn of the city of NewYork, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Blotter-Holders, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part hereof.

The object of the invention is to provide a frame or holder for a pieceof blotting paper which frame or holder shall be exceedingly flexible sothat when inuse it may be bent freel without danger of being broken andwhic after use, will tend to return to its natural shape.

It has been customary heretofore to bind together several thicknesses ofhand blotters and to provide a smooth top piece, such as is furnished bya celluloid strip, for instance, in order to furnish a smooth surface torub against. Any'excessive bending or such a blotting pad will not onlycause the blotters to break but willtend to destroy the shape of the padand to make it unsightly.

In accordance with the present improvements, a resilient strip isprovided in connection with a soft top piece or back for rubbingagainst, the effect of which is to keep the holder in shape and at thesame time to permit excessive bending or distortion while in use.

The invention will be more fully described in connection with theaccompanying drawings in which,

Figure l is a plan view of a device em-' bodylng the improvements, whichdevice, as shown, is broken away in order to illustrate its structureand Fig. 2 is a view in section, the plane of the section beingindicated by the line 2-2 in Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, it will be noted that the improved deviceconsists of what may be referred to as a top piece or back a over whichthe hand is passed in order to rub the blotter well down upon the wetink, means such as the corner pieces I) employed for securing a blotterc to the back piece, and interposed strips of material between theblotter and the back. In the present case, the inter osed materialbetween the blotter and the back is made up of what may be Specificationof Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 27, 1912.

Application filed December 18, 1908. Serial No. 468,227.

referred to as a resilient'piece d and a soft filling 6, between theresilient piece and the back, such as cotton batting. The resilientstrip or piece may be simply a very thin layer of steel but it has beenfound very satisfactory in practice to employ a piece of paper board,such as red pocketbook paper, for this purpose. In order to prevent thered pocketbook paper from creasing or from becoming broken, a strip ofmuslin, such as Holland cloth, is pasted upon each side of the strip ofpaper board, as illustrated in the drawings at f. Thus, in the presentcase, the resilient piece consists of the strip d and the two strips fpasted one on each side of the strip d respectively. Such a constructionfurnishes a strip having the desired qualities of flexibility andresiliency and does not entail any considerable expense in be insertedunderneath the corner pieces I),

but preferably only one such strip will be employed at a time, the sameto be removed and a new piece inserted after it has absorbed enough inkto render its further use undesirable.

When the device is used, it may be bent or flexed to the extent ofalmost being folded without injury thereto, and it will returnsubstantially to its original or normal shape thereafter.

It will be understood that various changes may be made in the embodimentof the improvements shown and described herein without departing fromthe spirit of the invention.

I claim as my invention:

1. A blotter holder comprising a layer of soft material constituting aback which can be flexed, means to secure a blotter thereto, and a layerbetween the blotter and back consisting of paper board and muslin piecespasted upon each side of the paper board.

2. A blotter holder comprising a leather This specification signed andwitnessed back, means to secuge a blottedr btheli'eto, and this 17th dayof December, A. 1)., 1908. a strip between the otter an ac consist ingof red pocketbook paper with Holland DANIEL FITZGERALD 010th pasted uponeach side of the red pock- Signed in the presence of etbock paper'torestore the holder to normal LUOIUS E. VARNEY, shape after being used.G. MCGRANN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents eaohyby addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, DIG.

